Conjectures and refutations; the growth of scientific knowledge

by: Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994

Publication date: 1962

Topics: Vooruitgang, Kennisverwerving, Knowledge, Theory of, Methodology, Méthodologie, Science -- Methodology, Sciences -- Méthodologie, Connaissance, Théorie de la, Wetenschapsfilosofie

Publisher: New York, Basic Books

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

xi, 412 pages 25 cm

Conjectures: Science: conjectures and refutations ; The nature of philosophical problems and their roots in science ; Three views concerning human knowledge ; Towards a rational theory of tradition ; Back to the presocratics ; A note on Berkeley as precursor of Mach and Einstein ; Kant's critique and cosmology ; On the status of science and of metaphysics ; Why are the calculi of logic and arithmetic applicable to reality? ; Truth, rationality, and the growth of scientific knowledge -- Refutations: The demarcation between science and metaphysics ; Language and the body-mind problem ; A note on the body-mind problem ; Self-reference and meaning in ordinary language ; What is dialectic? ; Prediction and prophecy in the social sciences ; Public opinion and liberal principles ; Utopia and violence ; The history of our time: an optimist's view ; Humanism and reason -- Addenda: Some technical notes